Car Wheels on a Gravel Road

Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Studio album by Lucinda Williams
Released	June 30, 1998
Genre	Folk-Rock
Length	51:40
Label	Mercury Polygram
Producer	Roy Bittan Lucinda Williams
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link The A.V. Club (Favourable) link Robert Christgau link Rolling Stone link
Lucinda Williams chronology
Sweet Old World (1992) Car Wheels on a Gravel Road (1998) Essence (2001)

Car Wheels on a Gravel Road is the 1998 album by singer-songwriter and guitarist Lucinda Williams. Williams hit her stride with this recording, which showcases her songwriting at least as much as her singing. As on her other recordings, she captures places and tells people's stories in her songs, as well as her own take on the perennial topic of love. This recording was issued by Mercury/Polygram Records. It was recorded in Nashville and Canoga Park, California. Lucinda Williams co-produced this album which features a stellar line up of musicians, including guest appearances by Steve Earle and Emmylou Harris. Car Wheels on a Gravel Road won a Grammy for Best Contemporary Folk Album, and was Willams' first album to go gold. It was voted as the best album of the year in The Village Voice Pazz & Jop critics poll. In 2003, the album was ranked number 304 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time. The original CD release was HDCD encoded, although the logo was not printed on the packaging. A remastered deluxe version of the album was released on October 4, 2006, featuring three bonus tracks – "Down the Big Road Blues", "Out of Touch" and "Still I Long For Your Kiss", the latter from The Horse Whisperer and X-Men soundtracks – and a 13-song live set recorded for WXPN-FM in mid-1998.

Track listing

1. "Right in Time"
2. "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road"
3. "2 Kool 2 Be 4-gotten"
4. "Drunken Angel"
5. "Concrete and Barbed Wire"
6. "Lake Charles"
7. "Can’t Let Go"
8. "I Lost It"
9. "Metal Firecracker"
10. "Greenville"
11. "Still I Long For Your Kiss"
12. "Joy"
13. "Jackson"

Wheels Are Square

Samples

Personnel

• Lucinda Williams: vocals, acoustic guitar, dobro guitar
• Gurf Morlix: electric guitar, 12 string electric guitar, electric slide guitar, harmony vocal, acoustic slide guitar
• John Ciambotti: bass guitar, upright bass
• Donald Lindley: drums, percussion
• Buddy Miller: acoustic guitar, mando guitar, harmony vocal, electric guitar
• Ray Kennedy: 12 string electric guitar
• Greg Leisz: 12 string electric guitar, mandolin
• Roy Bittan: Hammond B3 organ, accordion, organ
• Jim Lauderdale: harmony vocal
• Charlie Sexton: electric guitar, dobro guitar
• Steve Earle: acoustic guitar, harmonica, harmony vocal, resonator guitar
• Johnny Lee Schell: electric guitar, electric slide guitar, dobro guitar
• Bo Ramsey: electric guitar, slide guitar
• Micheal Smotherman: B-3 organ
• Richard “Hombre” Price: dobro guitar
• Emmylou Harris: harmony vocal